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From: mbell@teleport.com (Max Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How do I stop crond from mailing?
Date: 28 Apr 1994 12:56:36 -0700
Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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Message-ID: <2pp4dk$l8a@kelly.teleport.com>
References: <2poeil$det@explorer.clark.net> <2poqtv$pbo@hermod.uio.no>
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In article <2poqtv$pbo@hermod.uio.no>,
Thomas Berge <Thomas.Berge@studorg.uio.no> wrote:
>Eric S. Hvozda (ack@clark.net) wrote:
>>Redirect the output.  Don't forget about stderr too :-)
>
>How could I do that? Should I do it when starting the crond? [ . . .]

Not crond's output, the output of the job invoked in the crontab file.
IE: If you have "0 2 * * * /usr/adm/cleanup", change it to:
"0 2 * * * /usr/adm/cleanup > /dev/null 2>&1".  I am assuming that crond uses
the Borne shell to execute crontab entries.  If it uses something else, use
that shell's redirection syntax instead (for csh it would be ">& /dev/null").

Max
-- 

 /\  /\/  Max Bell                    | I used to think I'd emmigrate to escape
/  \/ /\  mbell@teleport.com          | the tyrants, but now I think I'll stay
~~~~~~~~~                             | and make them leave instead.